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9:55 AM ET, January 18, 2025

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Wall Street Journal:
Trump to Begin Large-Scale Deportations Tuesday  —  Chicago will be early target and the government will send as many as 200 officers to carry out the operation, according to people familiar with the planning  —  The incoming Trump administration is planning a large-scale immigration raid …
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Fox News:
Trump administration planning illegal immigrant arrests throughout US on ‘day one’  —  The incoming Trump administration is eyeing immigration arrests of illegal immigrants across the country as soon as day one, as top officials say they are ready to “take the handcuffs off” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Discussion: CBS News and New York Post
New York Times:
Trump's Deportation Plan Is Said to Start Next Week in Chicago  —  The size of the planned immigration raids is unclear, but they would be the opening step in the president-elect's goal of overseeing the largest deportation program in history.  —  The incoming Trump administration intends to carry out …
New York Times:
Support for Trump's Policies Exceeds Support for Trump  —  A new poll found the public is sympathetic to the president-elect's plans to deport migrants and reduce America's presence overseas.  —  Many Americans who otherwise dislike President-elect Donald J. Trump share his bleak assessment …
Discussion: Twitchy and New York Post
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New York Times:
Under Trump's Big Tent, Republicans Are Starting to Clash  —  Donald J. Trump won his battle with establishment Republicans.  Now, it's disputes over immigration, taxes and foreign policy that will test his party's unity.  —  Democrats have long been viewed as the big-tent party …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Stephen Fowler / NPR:
After major 2024 defeats, the Democratic Party searches for a new direction  —  DETROIT — The Democratic Party begins 2025 with several looming questions about its future.  —  Among them: how to recover from losing the White House and the Senate, in an election that saw Democrats lose …
Discussion: Semafor
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Transition Live Updates: Trump, Citing Cold Weather, Moves Inauguration Indoors
Christina Jewett / New York Times:
Kennedy Sought to Stop Covid Vaccinations 6 Months After Rollout  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the F.D.A. to revoke authorization of the shots at a time when they were in high demand and considered life-saving.  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump's choice to lead …
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Biden just announced there's a new constitutional amendment.  Huh?  —  Three days before leaving office, President Joe Biden has made a surprising announcement: He declared that a decades-old proposed Constitutional amendment enshrining equal rights on the basis of sex is now “the law of the land.”
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Can He Do That? Here's What Biden's Move on the Equal Rights Amendment Means.
CNN:
Biden says Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, kicking off expected legal battle as he pushes through final executive actions
Wall Street Journal:
Exclusive |  CBS Owner Discusses Settling Trump Suit, With Merger Review on Tap  —  Paramount, owner of CBS, its namesake studio and several cable channels, has a major piece of business in front of the new administration: its planned merger with Skydance Media.
David McCabe / New York Times:
TikTok to ‘Go Dark’ on Sunday for Its 170 Million American Users  —  The Chinese-owned company said it would cut off its services unless the U.S. assures Apple, Google and other companies that they would not be punished for hosting and distributing TikTok.  —  TikTok said late Friday …
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Julia Shapero / The Hill:
TikTok CEO thanks Trump for commitment to finding solution after court upholds ban
David Folkenflik / NPR:
CNN settles lawsuit after $5 million defamation verdict  —  CNN reached a legal settlement with a security contractor Friday after a Florida jury found the network had defamed him by suggesting he was charging “exorbitant prices” to evacuate people from Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal in August 2021.
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Florida jury says CNN defamed Navy veteran in story about endangered Afghans
Rachael Bade / Politico:
The Real Story Behind Mike Turner's Firing  —  The speaker's decision to cashier his Intelligence chair wasn't about Donald Trump.  —  When Speaker Mike Johnson summarily fired House Intelligence Chair Mike Turner this week, everyone assumed it was about Donald Trump.
Wall Street Journal:
Voters Want MAGA Lite From Trump, WSJ Poll Finds  —  Survey shows Biden leaves office with record-low approval and a badly tarnished party  —  Voters support many of the goals President-elect Donald Trump has set for his second term.  They are just not on board with all the ways he wants to accomplish them.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ben Blanchet / HuffPost:
Fox News' Jessica Tarlov Hits Sean Hannity With Blunt Reality Check On Biden  —  Tarlov spotted the “reason” why Donald Trump “wants to take credit” for numbers coming out of the Biden administration.  —  LOADING  —  Fox News' Jessica Tarlov on Friday took on network host Sean Hannity …
David Marchese / New York Times:
Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done.  Powerful Conservatives Are Listening.  —  Philip Montgomery for The New York Times  —  For a long time, Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer, has written online about political theory in relative obscurity.
Tierney Plumb / Eater DC:
Exclusive: Elon Musk May Be the Latest Leader of D.C.'s Line Hotel  —  The president-elect's best new buddy hopes to snap up the hot Adams Morgan address  —  In huge pre-inauguration news, tech titan Elon Musk is slated to be the highest bidder on D.C.'s trendy Line hotel.
Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
Bill Gates ‘Impressed’ With Trump's Interest in Global Health During Three-Hour Dinner  —  Microsoft co-founder says he discussed HIV, polio and global health with president-elect  —  Add Bill Gates to growing the list of billionaires dining with President-elect Donald Trump before he returns to the White House.
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
Eric Adams, With Pardon Talk Swirling, Meets With Trump Near Mar-a-Lago  —  The New York mayor, who has expressed interest in a pardon to resolve federal corruption charges, met with President-elect Donald J. Trump and his son Eric on Friday.  —  Mayor Eric Adams of New York City met …
Fox News:
FBI assistant special agent in charge who said New Orleans attack ‘not a terrorist event’ reassigned  —  The FBI later put out a statement confirming the Bourbon Street attack was ‘terrorism’  —  The FBI assistant special agent in charge who told the media and the public the New Orleans attack was …
Aaron Boxerman / New York Times:
Live Updates: Israeli Government Approves Gaza Cease-Fire  —  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the deal, which includes the release of hostages for Palestinian prisoners, would go into effect on Sunday.  —  Here's the latest on the agreement.
Aris Folley / The Hill:
Yellen: Debt limit will be hit day after Trump's inauguration  —  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday said the nation will hit its debt ceiling the day after President Trump is inaugurated, and that the agency will begin “extraordinary measures” to stave off the threat of a national default.
Politico:
DeWine passes over Ramaswamy, selects Jon Husted for Senate  —  The senator-to-be is an institutionalist Republican similar to the Ohio governor.  —  Gov. Mike DeWine announced his own Lt. Gov. Jon Husted as the next senator from Ohio, passing over entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
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Associated Press:
Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted will succeed JD Vance in the US Senate
 
 
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Michael Smith / Bloomberg:
A Trump-Voting Farmer's Warning: Mass Deportations Would Be a Disaster
Discussion: Raw Story
US Department of Justice:
Undocumented Individual Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Voting Fraud and Passport Fraud
Emily Crane / New York Post:
The Left is now more unpopular worldwide than any time since the Cold War: report
Discussion: acecomments.mu.nu and RedState
Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
Biden Gives $27 Billion for Clean-Energy Deals in Final Days
Associated Press:
Child labor in slaughterhouses spotlighted by 3 settlements this week
 Earlier Items: 
Al Weaver / The Hill:
Senate advances Laken Riley Act, teeing up final vote
Lottie Joiner / The Guardian:
Washington DC residents flee ahead of Trump inauguration: 'I can't be here'
Discussion: TMZ.com, Florida Politics and CBS News
Andrew Perez / Rolling Stone:
Will Biden Pardon This Human Rights Lawyer Who Beat Big Oil in Court?
Howard Husock / The Hill:
Fixing the missing ‘N’ in ‘NPR’: Public media must serve the American public at large
Discussion: The Independent
New York Times:
How Biden's Inner Circle Protected a Faltering President
Discussion: HotAir and Raw Story